How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day site hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most web space hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you becoming perplexed? We positively are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Problem Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing platform (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel departments to learn... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting vendors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...